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Takatuf introduced Project Management Development Program (Takatf14). The first week of the program was face to face intensive workshops. The program consists of members from different companies who barely knew each other. In order for this team to start the project and face the challenges, leadership style need to be decided and agreed by the team.

A professional professor who delivers graduate level of programs in Project Management and Takatuf Oman (a Unit in OOC) both has developed a complete Training Program in Project Management Professional, which was conducted on 25th to 29th of May 2014 in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman. This training had a lot of learning tools and plenty of deliverables, for that a team was formed after 5 days Face to Face section and named by” Takatuf Oman 2014″.

The foundation of any team is having a shared commitment to common objectives and the successes of this team is by having a great leader to achieved teams goals.

A PMI competency development course commenced at Muscat on May 2015, with 25 participants from Oman. The course is broadly divided into face to face sessions as well as 12-week distance learning mode.

This first blog post is about using Bruce Tuckman “Forming, Storming, Norming and Performing” module, to which adjourning phase was added years later, to decide the leadership style appropriate for the team, since about 50% of the course consists of team based assignments.

Takatuf program was initiated to develop project management competency on selected individuals from various industries in Oman. The program kicked off with a 5 days intense face to face session. This resulted in forming a Takatuf_PMI 2014 team consisting of 25 members with different backgrounds and experience levels in their associated industries. As the objective of this program is to produce High performing team, that embraces challenges and problems, finds solutions, plans and delivers results effectively. The first step to achieving this target is to analyze the current behavior and leadership style that the team is situated at. This blog post explains the outcome of this task.

OOC form a new company called “Takatuf Oman” to support OOC subsidiaries companies in HR and employees developments. One of its program is Oman PMI 2014 for a team from deferent OOC group Companies to help them to Pass PMP exam.

The problem in the W1 of the course is how to apply Tuckman tools to identify the situation of the team come from different companies and what type of management is required to manage the team.

Team “Takatuf PMI 2014” has been established as part of the Takatuf Project management program 2014. It is important to know at which stage the team is progressing so that we know the best approach to help the team perform and function in order to meet the goals and align the purposes of the project and help the team maximize its process and its productivity. Tuckman’s assessment will be used in determining the team development stage, behavior of this teamwork and leadership style.

“Takatuf PMI 2014 Team” is just established as a part of PMI program conducted in Muscat from 24th to 29th May 2014. The team consists of 25 members from different companies and specializations in Oman. The team Project Manager should know at what level of understanding his team are and make appropriate interventions that move the team forward.

Program team ” Takatuf Oman 2014″ establish during 5 days face to face workshop. This program is 3 months competency based project management program which requires extensive working among project teams throughout 5 phases. Phases one closed by getting a notice to proceed from the sponsor where the team successfully manage to work on all program/ project documentations and define the deliverable.

For such a new built program team, they will go through different building relationship stages according to Dr. Bruce Tuckman theory. Takatuf objective, we need to identify the norm of the team development stages in order to know the suitable leadership styles to run the team.

Group of people came from different organizations gathered for 5 days face to face session and formed a project team under a name of “TakatutufPmi2014” . You can’t expect a new team to perform well when it first comes together. Team formation takes time, and teams often go through recognizable stages as they change from being collections of strangers to becoming united groups with common goals. The leader plays the vital role to lead this team for a transition from personal goal to team’s goal.